Creativity
“We live in a moment when industries are collapsing and reinventing faster than we can rename them. The arts need to stop sneering at strategy, and business needs to stop fearing beauty, subtlety and metaphor. The truth is, creative minds can revitalize tired systems, and commercial minds can protect and scale brilliant ideas.”
Explaining creative 'Resistance': the more important a project is to your soul's growth, the more fear it generates.
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And I'd like your reflections on it and what you intended when you said it, which is, quote, the more important to your soul's growth, the stronger the resistance will be, which for me was very counterintuitive.
We all imagine the creative process as one of, you know, being inspired. Oh, this is my soul's work. and having a ton of motivation to
... See moreLet yourself be bored. We are so used to never being bored these days that we have lost the liberation that it brings, liberation that allows your mind to wander and wonder. Try this, all this week do your entire commute without looking at your phone. Just get bored and let you mind do interesting things and in particular to notice the people... See more
When you see the world
As devoid of something
Only you can bring to life
You create magic
And if you fail,
You can still take comfort
In knowing you attempted
the impossible
Not the easy
simp 4 satoshix.comBill Bernbach, founder of advertising agency DDB, reminds us that it is not enough to be right — you must also be compelling:
"A dull truth will not be looked at. An exciting lie will. That is what good, sincere people must understand. They must make their truth exciting and new, or their good works will be born dead."
"A dull truth will not be looked at. An exciting lie will. That is what good, sincere people must understand. They must make their truth exciting and new, or their good works will be born dead."
One of the benefits of producing consistent creative work is that it comes with a narrative network effect: The more people who know and love the story of an object, the stronger the tie to that object becomes. For a brand like MSCHF, success might not always come from money—sometimes, it comes from products that reinforce how they want to... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
To test an idea, you must build it. You can’t rely on the abstract – you have to bring it into the world to play with it feel it and only then can you judge whether it’s worth pursuing or not